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Between market and alternatives: household food resilience in uncertain times (FoodRes)

Environmental degradation, the pandemic and growing food prices highlighted the vulnerability and unsustainability of the current food system. Its resilience can be enhanced by developing closer links with informal sources of food. The rece…

Topics:

Climate Change, City and Village, Consumption, Public health, Environment, Lifestyle

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2024 - 2026

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Sustainable lifestyles and movements in global and local contexts

The aim of this project is to examine local responses to global environmental problems (climate change, soil degradation, food quality, etc.) in terms of social movements and lifestyles. The research activity is carried out within the frame…

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Topics:

Value Orientations, Identity, Culture, City and Village, Family, Public health, Environment, Lifestyle

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2017 - 2020

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Ecological landscape infrastructure, Diversity of life and health of ecosystems, CAS (2018)

The aim of the project was to analyze strategies, methods and forms of cooperation of environmental organizations of civil society, as well as how they succeed in meeting the goals with which they enter the planning and landscape management…

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Topics:

Civil Society, Environment

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2018 - 2018

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Social disadvantage in rural peripheries in Czechia and in eastern Germany: opportunity structures and individual agency in a comparative perspective

The general objective of this project is to investigate the multifaceted interrelations between social disadvantage, opportunity structures, and individual agency in rural peripheries in eastern Germany and Czechia in a comparative perspect…

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Topics:

Migration and Mobility, Regions, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2018 - 2020

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Global Conflicts and Local Interactions: Cultural and Social Challenges

Research programme within Strategy AV21 focuses on global conflicts and their local interactions which present important cultural and social challenges in the 21st century. It analyses cultural and social transformations with regard to inte…

Topics:

Globalization, Migration and Mobility, Social Inequalities, Sociological Theory

Contracting authority:

Other

Project Duration:

2016 - 2022

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